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The U.S. Department of Justice and Michigan Attorney General’s Office last week filed a civil antitrust lawsuit alleging that four hospital systems in adjacent counties violated the Sherman Act and state law by agreeing to allocate territories for the marketing of competing health care…
The AHA-affiliated Health Research & Educational Trust video on preventing dialysis-related infections through patient engagement has won the grand prize in the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology Film Festival. The video highlights ways for clinicians to…
Reps. Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) and Dave Loebsack (D-IA) last night introduced AHA-supported legislation (H.R. 2878) that would extend through calendar year 2015 the enforcement delay on direct supervision requirements for outpatient therapeutic services provided in critical access hospitals and rural…
Accountable care organizations participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program in 2014 or later may apply in July to participate in the ACO Investment Model, which offers prepaid shared savings to encourage ACOs to form in rural and underserved areas. Hospital participants must be critical…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services anticipates that the July update to the Hospital Compare website will include performance data reported voluntarily by critical access hospitals, the agency told AHA, quickly responding to an AHA letter expressing “deep disappointment” that the…
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration yesterday advised its staff to review potential hazards for musculoskeletal disorders related to patient and resident handling, bloodborne pathogens, workplace violence, tuberculosis and falls when inspecting hospitals and nursing homes in…
The AHA and its Health Research & Educational Trust affiliate are surveying hospitals through July to catalog their efforts to improve hospital discharge transitions as part of Project ACHIEVE, a study funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to evaluate the effectiveness…
A Health Research & Educational Trust video on preventing dialysis-related infections through patient engagement has won the grand prize in the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology Film Festival. The video is part of an Agency for Healthcare Research and…
The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled 6-3 that subsidies can continue for the purchase of health insurance for qualified individuals in the 34 states where the federal government operates health insurance exchanges.Plaintiffs in the case King v. Burwell had challenged the validity of the subsidies,…
The House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs today held a hearing on the Department of Veterans Affairs’ current budget, which reportedly faces a $2.6 billion shortfall. In a letter to the committee, AHA urged Congress to reject any requests by the department to redirect funding…